Areopagus
ar-e-op'-a-gus (Areios pagos; Acts 17:19,22. Mars' Hill,
17:22 the King James Version): A sort of spur jutting out
from the western end of the Acropolis and separated from it
by a very short saddle. Traces of old steps cut in the rock
are still to be seen. Underneath are deep grottoes, once the
home of the Eumenides (Furies). On the flat surfa...
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the hill of Mars or Ares, better known by the name of
Areopagus, of which hill of Mars or Ares is a translation.
The Areopagus was a rocky height in Athens, opposite the
western end of the Acropolis. It rises gradually from the
northern end, and terminates abruptly on the south, over
against the Acropolis, at which point it is about fifty or
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the Latin form of the Greek word rendered "Mars' hill." But
it
denotes also the council or court of justice which met
in the
open air on the hill. It was a rocky height to the
west of the
Acropolis at Athens, on the south-east summit of which
the
council was held which was constituted by Solon, and
consisted
of nine archons or chief magis...
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("Mars' Hill".) A rocky eminence in Athens, separated from
the W. of the Acropolis by a raised valley, above which it
rises sixty feet. Mythology made it the scene of the god
Mars' trim before the gods, at Poseidon's accusation, for
murdering the son of the latter, Halirrhotius. The most
venerable of all the Athenian courts, consisting of all ...
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And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May
we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, [is]?...
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